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Prayers of jewish women : studies of patterns of prayer in the second temple period
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ISBN: 3161488504 9783161488504 Year: 2006 Volume: 211 Publisher: Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck,


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The Abbaye du Saint Esprit : spiritual instruction for laywomen, 1250-1500
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ISBN: 9782503586816 9782503586823 9782503586823 2503586813 Year: 2020 Volume: 21 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Study and edition of a key text of French vernacular theology that had a significant impact in English translation.The Abbaye du Saint Esprit was a successful work of vernacular spiritual advice for women, surviving in sixteen manuscripts and a widely copied Middle English translation. Unlike many other didactic religious texts, it offers few prescriptions for behaviour; rather, it instructs the reader to build a convent of virtues in her conscience and uses the allegorical structure of the building and its inhabitants to arrange brief teachings on prayer and virtuous practice. Between its genesis in the last quarter of the thirteenth century to its final development towards the end of the fifteenth, it was reworked several times for new audiences of women both lay and cloistered, bourgeois and aristocratic. The examination of these successive adaptations offers insights into the growth of lay religious culture, the participation of women in new religious movements, and the use and transformation of twelfth and early thirteenth-century monastic formation literature for new audiences.This book also offers, for the first time, editions of all the French versions of the Abbaye and a modern English translation of the earliest version.


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Translating Christ in the Middle Ages : gender, authorship, and the visionary text
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ISBN: 9780268202200 0268202206 9780268202194 0268202192 9780268202187 9780268202217 Year: 2022 Publisher: Notre Dame, Ind. University of Notre Dame Press

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"From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, women across northern Europe began committing their visionary conversations with Christ to the written word, requiring multiple transformations: divine speech into human language, aural event into textual artifact, visionary experience into linguistic record, and individual encounter into communal repetition. This ambitious study shows how women's visionary texts form an underexamined literary tradition within medieval religious culture, one which became both widespread and influential, reconfiguing traditional hierarchies and positions of spiritual power for female authors and readers in ways that reverberated throughout late-medieval literary and religious cultures. In translating their visionary conversations with Christ into vernacular text, medieval women turned themselves into authors and devotional guides, and formed their readers into textual communities shaped by gendered visionary experiences and spoken imitatio Christi. Comparing texts in Latin, Dutch, French, and English, this work explores how women's visionary translation of Christ's speech initiated larger transformations of gendered authorship and religious authority within medieval culture. The book will interest scholars in different linguistic and religious traditions in medieval studies, history, religious studies, and women's and gender studies."

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Jesus Christ / Apparitions and miracles / History / To 1500 --- Visions / History / To 1500 --- Women / Religious life / History / To 1500 --- Visions --- Women --- Visionaries --- Women religious leaders --- 248-055.2 --- 248-055.2 Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Vrouwen en spiritualiteit --- Religious leaders --- Persons --- Apparitions --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Parapsychology --- Religion --- History --- Authorship --- Religious life --- Jesus Christ --- Christ --- Cristo --- Jezus Chrystus --- Jesus Cristo --- Jesus, --- Christ, Jesus --- Yeh-su --- Masīḥ --- Khristos --- Gesù --- Christo --- Yeshua --- Chrystus --- Gesú Cristo --- Ježíš --- Isa, --- Nabi Isa --- Isa Al-Masih --- Al-Masih, Isa --- Masih, Isa Al --- -Jesus, --- Jesucristo --- Yesu --- Yeh-su Chi-tu --- Iēsous --- Iēsous Christos --- Iēsous, --- Kʻristos --- Hisus Kʻristos --- Christos --- Jesuo --- Yeshuʻa ben Yosef --- Yeshua ben Yoseph --- Iisus --- Iisus Khristos --- Jeschua ben Joseph --- Ieso Kriʻste --- Yesus --- Kristus --- ישו --- ישו הנוצרי --- ישו הנצרי --- ישוע --- ישוע בן יוסף --- المسيح --- مسيح --- يسوع المسيح --- 耶稣 --- 耶稣基督 --- 예수그리스도 --- Jíizis --- Yéshoua --- Iėsu̇s --- Khrist Iėsu̇s --- ‏عيسىٰ‏ --- Apparitions and miracles --- Christian dogmatics --- Christian church history --- anno 500-1499 --- Visions -- Europe --- Littérature chrétienne médiévale --- Femmes et littérature -- Europe --- Femmes mystiques -- Europe --- Mystique

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